单词 | logy |
释义 | logy (once / 23975 pages) adj If you're logy, you're slow and listless, not reacting quickly. Most coffee drinkers start the day off in a logy state, before they've had their first cup. Hot, humid weather makes some people logy, and so does missing an hour or two of sleep. When your dog wakes from the anesthesia after having his teeth cleaned at the vet, he might be logy and groggy for a while before he can walk in a straight line. The adjective logy, coined in the US and primarily used in North America, is fairly uncommon today. The root may be the Dutch log, "heavy or dull." WORD FAMILYlogy: logier, logily, loginess USAGE EXAMPLESNakajima defends his group’s methodo- logy, stating that they adopted a strategy similar to that commonly used in studying autoimmune encephalitis in mice. Science Magazine(Dec 21, 2016) It’s easy to see how such effects could make it difficult to replicate experiments, a concern that has roiled fields from psycho logy to cancer. Science Magazine(Aug 16, 2016) The world of molecular biology is mad for this new form of genetic engineering. Washington Post(May 03, 2016) adj stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) Syn dazed, foggy, groggy, stuporous lethargic, unenrgetic deficient in alertness or activity |
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